Printing card and type holder.



E. H. FREY.

PRINTING CARD AND TYPE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 001219. 1911.

1,149,570. Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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I PRINTING CARD AND TYPE HOLDER.

Application filed October 19, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST H. FREY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PrintingrCard and Type Holders, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The objects of the invention are to provide a printing plate or card particularly adapted for use upon an improved form of addressing machine and which is an improvement upon Letters Patent No. 871,581 issued November 19, 1907, to me for a printing cards One feature of the invention is a printing plate or type holder provided with an indexing means upon its rear surface, which may be an index card secured thereto, or a printed or otherwise affixed or stamped index thereon, which preferably includes the full name and address so that the plate can readily be identified by a'glance. In this manner the size of the plate may be greatly reduced below the size of the plate in ordinary use, since in index plates heretofore known the upper surface has been extensive enough to provide a space for the printing plate and also for the index card or printed index of any character.

Further objects of the invention are to provide an attachable and detachable indexing card for the general classification of the indexes, and further to provide means for detachably securing an index card to the rear face of the printing plate or type holder.

A further feature of the invention is to provide the printing plate or type holder with an opening or openings through which if desired the reading matter on the index card can be plainly read from the upper surface of the holder. without turning the plate over, and an important additional feature is the utilization of the upwardly turned edges of some of these openings to form dove tailed guides and securing means for the printing plate or type, which by this means can be inserted at pleasure in any order desired between these openings. In this manner the address and type or linotype will be closely adjacent to corresponding Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Serial No. 655,598.

lines of the address or other printed matter,

and thus space is greatly economized.

also consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts and constructlon of details ashereinafter described. shown in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the upper face of a printing plate or type holder provided with longitudinal sight openings through which the address can be read. Also the edges of these openings are utilized as means for securing the type or line or type printing plate in line; Fig. 2is a side elevation of several of the devices piled upon each other; Fig. 3 is .a bottom view of a modified form of index showing-the .nameandv address card placed upon the lower side of the type holder; Fig. 4 is a transverse section thereof; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of type holder showing a large opening through which other matter than the address can be read if so desired; Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the spring keepers.

In these views 1 is the type holding plate which is preferably provided with backwardly turned lugs 2, 2, in which an index card 3 can be secured to the back? of the plate and also with longitudinal slots 4, 4. The index card 3 can be provided with the name and address in printed or written characters arranged in lines which can be read through the above mentioned slots.

In Figs. 1 and 4 the plate is shown pro vided with longitudinal slots 4, 4. Through these slots the name and address can be read on the card below without turning the card over. This is a very convenient form for general use since the card can be read clearly when in place in the addressing machine. The edges of the slots 4, 4, are turned upward as at 4, 4 and inclined so as to form dove tailed grooves in which the type or printing or linotype plates 6, v6, can be inserted and the lines of typewill be intermediate of-the open slots 4, 4, and will run parallel therewith, the lines 5, 5, of the nlame and address will show through the s ots.

The bent springs S, S are detachably snapped into place at the ends of the line of type and prevent them from moving. At one end of the card small upwardly turned integral lugs L, L, can be used as stops in place of the springs.

In Fig. 5 a larger opening is shown eX- terior to the printing space which may be used with a wider card and permits of the use of more descriptive printed matter. This larger opening can be used with or without the slots is, a, and as many openings can be made as desired. At the ends of the plate 1 are shown flanges downwardly and inwardly turned at 9.

When piled in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 1 the pasteboard card will be on the bottom and will present a soft surface to the printing type or plate below, or the edges 9 may be high enough to prevent contact. The type holders may be provided with detachable type or the type characters may be raised thereon by means of dies or cemented thereon. A general index tag 7 may be provided with tongues 8, 8, which are integral. with the card and project beyond the edge of the plate. And I believe myself also to be the first to conceive of a card index holder having slotted sight openings, the upwardly turned edges of which are utilized to hold type.

Having described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a type holder, of an index card secured to the underside of said type holder, said type holder provided ing flanges forming dove tailed spaces between which the type may be secured, said type spaces alternating with said slots, of an index card secured underneath said type holder, the index matter being legible through said slots.

3. In combination with a type holding plate, said plate provided with a series of parallel slots, the edges of which are formed from material taken from said slots and which are turned upwardly to form dove tail type securing means, and also provided with an opening exterior to said type securing means, and an index card attached to the underside of said plate, the reading matter on said card being legible through said slots and opening.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand this 28th day of September 1911.

ERNEST II. FREY.

In presence of L. R. CANFIELD, WM. M. MONROE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner ofEatents. Washington, D. G. 

